Week Two: Dr. Otis Brawley, The Challenge of Health Disparities (January 27, 2021)
Dr. Otis Brawley
In early 2021, Dr. Otis W. Brawley, a globally recognized expert in cancer prevention and control and related areas of public policy, visited with us about his ongoing work to address cancer health disparities through his current leadership of a broad interdisciplinary research effort at the Johns Hopkins University as well as previous service as Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of the American Cancer Society.
At Johns Hopkins, Dr. Brawley is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center in the School of Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a frequent, frank, insightful, and engaging commentator on cancer and health disparities. Dr. Brawley has published more than 200 scientific articles and wrote How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America (2011) for the lay audience. A native Detroiter, he is a graduate of the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and the College and Medical School of the University of Chicago.
Dr. Brawley is one of the authors of A New Deal for Cancer (Yale University Press, 2021) and has his own book coming out soon about America’s now 50-year War on Cancer.